Origins

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Gambit: Cajun Thief By Day, 90s Go-Go Dancer By Night [X-Men Origins: Wolverine]

io9 - Dec 1, 2008

Why is Gambit dressed like a 90s stripper? Empire Magazine released a bunch of new X-Men Origins: Wolverine stills, and we got a closer look at Taylor Kitsch as the card dealing, explosion-causing, mutant Gambit. While …

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Studio Pushing For Plucky Family-Friendly Wolverine? [X-Men Origins: Wolverine]

io9 - Aug 22, 2008

Sounds like there's a power struggle on the set of X-Men Origins: Wolverine. According to Hollywood Elsewhere, director Gavin Hood (Rendition) and Fox co-chairman and CEO Tom Rothman are in a back and forth about the …

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Studio Pushing For Plucky Family-Friendly Woverine? [X-Men Origins: Wolverine]

io9 - Aug 21, 2008

Sounds like there's a power struggle on the set of X-Men Origins: Wolverine. According to Hollywood Elsewhere, director Gavin Hood (Rendition) and Fox co-chairman and CEO Tom Rothman are in a back and forth about the …

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An Orgy of Zombie Games [Zombie Apocalypse]

io9 - Jul 30, 2008

It's an inescapable fact that there are lot of zombies in the world. So what better way to practice killing the undead than to simulate it in game form? With enough training, we can easily overcome hordes of shambling …

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Design Your Own Starship with "Beyond Protocol" [Beyond Protocol]

io9 - Jul 11, 2008

You're a galactic warlord with the latest space tech and a pile of resources burning a hole in your pocket. What kind of spaceship would you like to design? You'll get to answer that question in a million ways if you …

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Car Wars the Way It Was Meant To Be Played [Car Wars]

io9 - Jun 29, 2008

If you've ever played Car Wars, the pen-and-paper game of post-apocalyptic vehicular combat, chances are that you probably love it despite all its flaws. Now, imagine playing it on a 12' by 8' 3D city block filled with …

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Playing AstroSmash with the Red Shirts [Origins]

io9 - Jun 28, 2008

One of the best things about going to a game convention is getting to try new games, which explains how I found myself piloting a Hellbender space fighter in one of Red Shirt Games' AstroSmash events at this weekend's …

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How To Become a Real Space Marine [Origins]

io9 - Jun 27, 2008

I was lying there incapacitated in the geoscience lab, wounded by a creepy, clawed alien, when one of the suits from Corporate approached. "Got any ammo?" he said briskly. "No, sir." "Then gimme your gun." He yanked my …

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Wouldn't You Prefer a Nice Game of Martian Chess? [Origins]

io9 - Jun 26, 2008

If you ever find yourself hanging out a coffee shop with J'onn J'onzz or John Carter, you should know how to play Martian Chess. It's just similar enough to Earth Chess to drive you mad as you move your Queens, Drones …

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